Category: Social Networking

WhatsApp has gone down on New Year’s Eve, with users across the world reporting connection problems. Their Whatsapp Status account has not posted anything as of yet, however. Users around the world texting each other final messages for 2017 might have caused the outage. Some people are managing to send messages once in a while. This

Twitter has doubled the character limit per tweet. They changed the maximum number of characters from 140 to 280, to solve ‘issues with cramming’. The company started testing the feature in back in September. Apparently, the results have been pleasing since they are now pushing it in most languages. The company claims the testing group got

WhatsApp now lets you delete sent messages from the recipient’s phones, albeit within a short space of time. This was a long-awaited feature that everyone hoped would come. Currently, when you delete a message it only disappears from your phone. This means the recipient can still view the erratic message ;-). With the new feature,

Facebook has pulled another Snapchat through Whatsapp, introducing a different kind of status. Since Monday, users can now post statuses that expire after 24 hours. With the update, you can now post stickers and GIFs as status. Like the rest of the app, the feature is end to end encrypted. WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said

The CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, admitted to editing comments that criticised him on the site, pointing them instead at the moderators of the_donald subreddit. Below is the full text of his response, after being called out by the users of the sub reddit. He still didn’t exactly apologise, but this is about as good as

Facebook has debuted Messenger Lite, partner of the Facebook Lite app. The messenger team designed the app for slow networks and devices. This reflects in the storage and runtime requirements of the app. It comes in a size that you can afford to live with. Facebook Messenger Lite packs the core functionality of messenger in a

Whatsapp has introduced @Mentions in its latest update. You can now tag your buddy when you want them to notice a certain message. To make it more interesting, the user gets notified when tagged. @Mentions are a part of all social networks. They make sure you notice a message directed at you. Whatsapp recently introduce the

Whatsapp Beta has a few new surprises for Emoji addicts. There are now gender balanced emojis, and emoticons that scale. The emojis also feature a redesign that changes how they look. First, let’s balance gender Whatsapp Emojis now include both male and female emojis for pretty much every emoji. The lazily walking kid is now

While Whatsapp has decided to share your data with Facebook, you can also opt out of the sharing deal. At least for now. And the good news is it’s pretty easy, too. This also applies to those who have already accepted the new terms and conditions. If you haven’t accepted the new terms and conditions

Twitter has introduced a set of filters for Notifications and content. The filter primarily affects accounts you are not following. Expect the feature to silence those online troll posts, and accounts that always pop up. Notifications Settings Twitter now allows users to choose whether they like to see notifications from everyone, or from people they